19 octobre 2011 The Sixties at the CMC: Preliminary Colloquium AnnouncementThe 1960s was an age of exuberant excess in art, design, economy, society, media and politics. Most striking about the 1960s was the exuberant nature of social behaviour which strived to set itself apart from past trends. Change was in the air, in the culture and the counter culture. Popular music, television and radio helped carry the message that, “the times they are a changing”. The purpose of this colloquium is to assemble curators and researchers (mainly) from the National capital region with a view to bringing together the perspective of various disciplines (arts, sciences, humanities etc) upon a remarkable decade that, fifty years on, continues to haunt us. As museum, archives, research, curatorial people we should have something to say about and to show for those interesting times. Location: Canadian Museum of Civilization, 100 rue Laurier, Gatineau, Québec: Salon des CascadesDate: 10 November 2011: 8h30 to 17h.
Information : John.willis@civilisations.ca
(We would like to acknowledge the partnership of the Canadian Studies Institute of the University of Ottawa and the contribution of the History Department of Carleton University.)Preliminary Draft Programme for Colloquium: The Sixties at the CMC 10 November 20118h30: Call to orderMot de la Bienvenue: Moira McCaffrey (VP Research + Collections, CMC)A few pointers regarding the Sixties: John Willis (Curator Archaeology+ History, CMC) Part One: Vestiges and Traces of the Era9h00 – 10h30 Theme 1: Culture, Aesthetics, Homelife Session Chair: Bianca Gendreau, Curator, Archaeology + History, CMC1. Alan C. Elder, Canadian Museum of Civilization, Expo 67: Utopia or Disneyland 2. Denise Leclerc, Art Historian, Art in the Sixties: The Medium, No Longer the Message? 3. Ioana Teodorescu, Diefenbunker: Canada’s Cold War Museum, A House of the Sixties 4. Jill Delaney, Library and Archives Canada, “Photographs can lie and they can work in the service of a bigger lie.” 10h30-10h45: Coffee Break10h45-12h15 Theme 2: Various Branches of Commemoration Session chair: Judith Klassen, Cultural Studies, CMC Joanna Dean, Carleton University, Crab Apple Centennial
Diana Majury, Carleton University, From Ripples to a Wave: 60’s Feminism in Canada
Alexandra Mosquin, Parks Canada, From Africville to Multicultural Radio Stations to Harry Jerome: Parks Canada and Historical Commemoration in the 1960s and Parks Canada and Historical Commemoration of the 1960s 12h15 – 13h30 - LunchPart Two: Point – Counterpoint13h30 – 15h00 Theme 3: The Challenge of Radicalism and Activism Session chair: Jennifer Anderson, Library and Archives Canada 1. Jessica Squires, Library and Archives Canada, The Canadian Anti-draft Movement Under Surveillance, 1965-1972 2. Christabelle Sethna, University of Ottawa, Hotbeds of Radicalism: Universities, Oral Contraception and Student Birth Control Activism in Canada 3. Amber Lloydlangston, Canadian War Museum, The Voice of Women and 60’s Women’s Peace Activism 4. Marcel Martel, York University, "They are a threat”: RCMP undercover operations in the Sixties 15h00 – 15h15: Coffee Break15h15 – 16h45 Theme 4: Government, Policy, the World Session chair: Sharon Babaian, Canada Science and Technology Museum 1. Sean Tudor, Canada Science and Technology Museum, The Peaceful Atom: Exporting Objects of Promise 2. David Tough, Carleton University, Tracing the "Rediscovery": Looking at Anti-Poverty in the Sixties 3. Greg Donaghy, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Paul Martin Sr. and the China Conundrum, 1963-67 4. John Moses, Canadian Heritage, “What Do You Want to Tell the People of Canada and the World ...?”: Placing the Indians of Canada Pavilion at Expo 67 in Context 16h45 – 17h30Part Three: Round Table: “How best to commemorate the 1960s? Brainstorming about memory and contested pasts”Animator : Jean-Pierre Morin, Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada |